Landscape-in-Transformation: From a Real Object to Imagining of the Visible and Backwards

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[In Russian]

 This article analyzes the project in progress It’s High Time
to Get Down to Earth Art by a Belarusian artist Sergei Kiryushchenko, who began working on the project in the summer of 2006
and intends to accomplish it by 2008. Along with silk painting, it
incorporates the elements of land art, object art, and media art.
Original objects to which these techniques are being applied are elements of a rural landscape – meant for demolition country houses
and collective farm buildings and/or their fragments in Uroda village (Lepel district, Vitebsk region). Turning his attention to the
condition of the Belarusian village within the scope of this project,
the artist tries to «redeem» the object, having reinstalled it via the
various means of contemporary art into a context of new functionality. The article offers an interpretation of the transformed objects’
formal and color components.